Archaeology is a field of research that relies largely on the remains of past humans and
nonhuman animals and the traces of their interactions within a range of material conditions …

Pastoral nomadism encompasses an array of specialized knowledge concerned with the
daily rhythms and long-term tempos of caring for herd animals in order to extract subsistence …

Though chickens are the most numerous and ubiquitous domestic bird, their origins, the
circumstances of their initial association with people, and the routes along which they …

The third edition of The Beast Within has been updated throughout to include current
scholarship, new discussion of definitions, and fresh perspectives on critical animal theory …

Over the last 10,000 y, humans have manipulated fallow deer populations with varying
outcomes. Persian fallow deer (Dama mesopotamica) are now endangered. European …

The time is ripe to address the issue of ecological novelty in the archaeological record from
a multispecies perspective. Pivotal research topics in archaeology have long simplified …

Horses have had a singular impact on human societies. Beyond increasing interconnectivity
and revolutionizing warfare, reconfigurations of human-horse relationships coincide with …

The barrow cemetery at Heath Wood, Derbyshire, is the only known Viking cremation
cemetery in the British Isles. It dates to the late ninth century and is associated with the over …

Synopsis “Brachycephaly” is generally considered a phenotype in which the facial part of the
head is pronouncedly shortened. While brachycephaly is characteristic for some domestic …

Domestic animals are ubiquitous. In contrast to the biodiversity crisis currently impacting
many kinds of animals and plants, not a single domesticated species is endangered …